1.0.0-alpha.17

This alpha adds app aliases and hotkeys, quicklinks, system commands, and a running apps mode.

Added

• Assign app aliases and hotkeys in Settings → Apps → Aliases & Hotkeys. Aliases rank apps first; hotkeys open, switch to, or hide an app.
• Exclude selected apps from search and recent results in Settings → Apps → Excluded.
• Type @ to switch to, hide, quit, force quit, or relaunch running apps.
• Run system commands such as Lock Screen, Sleep, Restart, and Empty Trash from app search, or type ! to list them. Empty Trash and Eject All Disks require confirmation.
• Create quicklinks that open URLs with search keywords, such as gh swift testing, and choose which app opens each link.
• Search the web from the last row of app results with Return or ⌥Return, using the search engine chosen in Settings.
• Reveal the selected app or file in Finder with ⌘Return.
• Calculate relative dates with now + 2 hours or now - 3 days, including offsets in seconds. Calculate date differences with now - 1 aug 2025 in days and typed date offsets with 1 aug 2025 + 30 days.
• Convert arithmetic currency amounts such as 500*21 GBP in USD, or specify the source with 500*21 in GBP in USD.

Changed

• Resize the Settings window vertically; its height is remembered between launches.

Fixed

• Other hotkeys keep working when one cannot be registered.
• Holding Return no longer repeats launcher actions.
• Closing the launcher keeps apps hidden after you hide them.

Requires macOS 26 or later.

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1.0-alpha.16

Conjuror 1.0 alpha 16 restores focus to the previous app after using the launcher.

Fixed

• Focus returns to the previous app after copying an emoji or calculation result, or running a Shortcut.
• Focus returns to the previous app when closing the launcher with Escape or its hotkey.

Requires macOS 26 or later.

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1.0-alpha.15

Conjuror 1.0 alpha 15 updates the menu bar icon and improves file search ranking and error handling.

Changed

• The menu bar icon is a bolder monochrome symbol.
• Multi-word and acronym file searches use the same ranking as application search.

Fixed

• File results remain visible when opening a file fails, instead of being replaced by a search error.
• Reopening the launcher after a failed file open restores file search and its error.

Requires macOS 26 or later.

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1.0-alpha.14

Conjuror 1.0 alpha 14 fixes application discovery and refresh, file navigation, and saved settings.

Added

• Separate installations of the same app appear in search with distinct names and preserved launch history.
• Executable apps such as Icon Composer appear in application search.

Changed

• Application results refresh when app folders change.

Fixed

• Keyboard navigation scrolls to the selected file result.
• Invalid saved hotkey values are ignored.
• Relative date calculations reject amounts too large to represent.

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1.0-alpha.13

• Added a Minimal launcher appearance with tighter spacing and smaller result rows.
• Fixed launcher resizing and hide/show transitions flickering as results change.
• Reduced Shortcuts icon memory by generating thumbnails in the catalog helper.
• Released the Settings window and SwiftUI view hierarchy when closed.
• Reduced typing allocations by reusing the application search index until its catalog changes.
• Released the decompressed emoji source text after parsing the catalog.

1.0-alpha.12

• Reduced idle memory usage by loading emoji, Shortcuts, and application icons on demand.
• Reduced memory after hiding the launcher by releasing its window and SwiftUI view hierarchy.
• Reduced loaded Shortcuts memory by moving catalog extraction into a short-lived helper process.
• Reduced search memory usage by compacting application, Shortcut, and emoji indexes.
• Reduced search allocations by precomputing candidate acronyms.
• Removed action counts from Shortcut results.

1.0-alpha.11

• Added iCloud Drive to protected folder access requests.
• Fixed broad fuzzy file searches continuing indefinitely.
• Fixed multi-word fuzzy file searches failing to match across filename words.
• Fixed single-word file searches crashing before Spotlight could start.

1.0-alpha.10

• Added a dedicated Apps section in settings.
• Added an accent colour setting shared by the launcher border and mode icons.
• Added fuzzy file and folder name search.
• Added System Settings sections to application search.
• Fixed Keychain Access and Passwords missing from application search.
• Fixed the settings window reopening on a previously active macOS Space.

1.0-alpha.9

• Added a setting to configure the launcher border.
• Added a setting to disable file and folder search.

1.0-alpha.8

1.0.0-alpha.8

Bump build version to 8